Dr. Thomas Fuller, we may add, after being deprived of his preferment at the Savoy, and leaving behind him his library, found refuge in Lincoln College, and preached before the King; the losses which this cheerful Divine suffered at the time leading him to observe, with his accustomed humour, "that his going to Oxford cost him all that he had, a dear seventeen weeks compared with the seventeen years he spent in Cambridge." Whilst Fuller tarried in the former University, there arrived Lord Hopton, an eminent Royalist officer of moderate opinions and of a pacific disposition. The ejected minister of the Savoy became a chaplain to the regiment of this brave soldier and sincerely religious man, and he hoped by filling this office to wipe off the stain of disaffection with which his enemies had endeavoured to spot his fame. He accompanied Hopton to the west, where he accepted a nominal chaplaincy to the infant Princess Henrietta, who was born at Bedford House, in the city of Exeter, on the 16th June, 1644.[475]
Another eminent churchman was now at Oxford. William Chillingworth, after the raising of the siege of Gloucester, left the construction of his Roman _testudines_, and more befittingly employed himself in preaching before the University, and in writing polemical tracts, especially one, entitled "The Apostolical Institution of Episcopacy." This publication, which was not answered for years afterwards, is very characteristic of its author, and takes a ground of defence for the Church of England not at all agreeable to high Prelatists; for he reduces Episcopal government to the smallest dimensions, specifying its essence to be no more than the appointment of one person of eminent sanctity, to take care of all the churches in a diocese--his authority being bounded by law and moderated by assistants. Even this scantling of rule he seems to defend rather than enforce--stating as the ground of adopting it, that there is _no record of our Saviour against it_, that it is _not repugnant_ to the apostolic government, and that it is _as compliable_ with the reformation of the Church, as any other kind of polity.[476] Chillingworth did not long survive his employment at Oxford; and the short remaining history of his life is so curious, so illustrative of the religious aspects of the war, and of the oddities of people engaged in it, that we venture to transfer it to these pages.